Diamond dolls crafty space(Aka Trish Lucey)

Friday, 3 August 2012

Everything That
You Ever Wanted to Know About Bugaboo Stamps: A Short Essay

As if raising five
children in the frozen land of the North was not enough of a
challenge, Jodie Mackrell decided to dip her cold little Canadian toes into the
world of papercrafting by opening an online store full of her illustrations.
That was two years ago. Today Bugaboo Stamps is one of the leading companies in digital images, and
we're still growing! From seriously snarky to sugary sweet to sublimely soulful
all the way over to the other side of the super sexy spectrum, you're bound to
find all that you need and more to create your paper projects. Jodie works very
hard to provide New Releases and Freebies every week!

For those of you who havent entered the 5 days yet dont despair you can enter all the days together as

All of the inlinkz links will remain open until 8.30am Monday 13th August when the winners will be drawn for all days and announced here,so it means even if you miss one day you will still have time to enter...So please visit the CRAFTY RIBBONS INSPIRATION BLOG each day and join in with us, check out all the fabulous creations the Design Team have made and leave them a comment as I know they would love to hear from you...

If you could give the event a little mention on your blog we would really appreciate it,let everyone know about the fabulous prizes up for grabs.....

Thursday, 2 August 2012

We are a small family Craft business that came about when as a card making
family, my daughters and young granddaughters and I that is! Not our men who do
not make cards, although my husband has had a go....Could never find the stamps
and crafts that we had seen advertised!

So, in the end we decided to start up Crafts and Me, so that we could get
the products we wanted not only for us, but to offer to other crafters like
you.

We love the different ranges of stamps and crafts that we get from all over
the world and we hope you will love them too....

Our aim is to give you the best possible customer service that we can, and
to treat our customers just as we would want to be treated ourselves.

So, enjoy looking at our shop and if you cannot find a product you would
like, or if you have any suggestions about our shop we would love to hear from
you, just email us at info@craftsandme.co.uk as
we are always looking for ways to improve our site.

The Prize 3 Digi,s of the winners choice

For those of you who havent entered the 5 days yet dont despair you can enter all the days together as

All of the inlinkz links will remain open until 8.30am Monday 13th August when the winners will be drawn for all days and announced here,so it means even if you miss one day you will still have time to enter...So please visit the CRAFTY RIBBONS INSPIRATION BLOG each day and join in with us, check out all the fabulous creations the Design Team have made and leave them a comment as I know they would love to hear from you...

If you could give the event a little mention on your blog we would really appreciate it,let everyone know about the fabulous prizes up for grabs.....

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Good morning it,s Day 5 of the Crafting for GOLD Event and the Company joining us for our 5th Day is

Ladybug Crafts Ink is the brainchild of me, Kerry, wife of one and mother of 3.
I started making cards in December 2000 and never in a million years did I think
I would have my own online store let along my own line of cling stamps. But here
I am almost 10 years later having both!
I was a bit disillusioned with the
stamps on the market .... same old same old and anything 'new' was just a
variation on the 'old'. Last year I decided it was time to shake things up a
bit, found myself an illustrator, Allan McConnachie, to get my ideas on
paper and Nikki was born. I also found myself another illustrator, Moira Munro,
when I wanted another charachter and Ruby Fairies entered the stamping
world.

PRIZE - £10
Voucher for Ladybug Crafts Ink

And the Theme is Decoupage

For those of you who havent entered the 1st 2
days yet dont dispair you can enter all the days together as

All of the inlinkz links will remain open until
8.30am Monday 13th August when the winners will be drawn for all days and
announced here,so it means even if you miss one day you will still have time to
enter...So please visit the CRAFTY RIBBONS
INSPIRATION BLOG each day and join in with us, check out all the fabulous creations the Design Team have made and leave them a comment as I know they would love to hear from
you...

If you could give the event a little mention on
your blog we would really appreciate it,let everyone know about the fabulous
prizes up for grabs.....

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Good morning and welcome to Day 4 of the Crafty Ribbons Crafting for GOLD Event

MULBERRYCRAFTS UK

MuberryCraftsUK online shop is a Home-Based business run by Bev . Who juggles
caring for her family and running this business from home.
At the moment we
are focussing on providing miniature flowers made from genuine mulberry paper
for crafts use - although we have a small selection of non -paper crafts too.
Why mulberry paper? Because they are robust, realistic look and last longer than
ordinary paper and it provides a sustainable income for people in the cottage
industry. In due course we will be introducing more of other craft materials
which is not related to mulberry paper.

Todays Prize

Pop on over to the Crafty Inspiration blog HEREfor all the details and how to enter.Have a fab day

Monday, 30 July 2012

Hello everyone , i,m still suffering with my back and have not done any crafting at all for the past 5 weeks, the painkillers i am taken make me very tired and i just dont have any mojo!!!!! I,m having Physio on Friday 3rd so hoping this helps and i can get back to normal.

I have had to opt out of the Crafting for gold event but here are the details for day 3 theres fab prizes to be won.

The Design Team have made cards/projects for your inspiration and all of the Companies have very generously given a prize for one of you lucky people to win each day...

Each day the Design Team will also be highlighting a different crafty technique or product alongside the sponsor Companies products and today's is.....

BUTTONS

For those of you who havent entered the 1st 2 days yet dont dispair you can enter all the days together as

All of the inlinkz links will remain open until 8.30am Monday 13th August when the winners will be drawn for all days and announced here,so it means even if you miss one day you will still have time to enter...So please visit the CRAFTY RIBBONS INSPIRATION BLOG each day and join in with us,and leave the Design Team a comment as I know they would love to hear from you...

If you could give the event a little mention on your blog we would really appreciate it,let everyone know about the fabulous prizes up for grabs.....

And the Company joining us for our third day is none other than our own..........

“Welcome to all ribbon lovers...."

Crafty Ribbons is a ribbon emporium, we are passionate about ribbons and want to share our fantastic ribbons with others. Our range of Christmas ribbons is second to none.

Remember when we only used ribbons to add a bow to our hair, or tie up a birthday parcel? Ribbons are now a "must-have" for all types of craft. Whether your project requires satin, sheer, silk, grosgrain, gingham or polka dot ribbon we have them all! Lots and lots of different colours in a range of widths.

Need a little bit of ribbon inspiration - then have a look at our projects, Go on, have a try... It's worth it !

Tony & Ali

Please checkout all the fabulous ribbons over at the Crafty Ribbons website so many gorgeous ribbons to chose from....

Ali & Tony have very kindly given the following prize for one of you lucky people to win....

So what you waiting for hop on over and enter to win.

I,ll be back tomorrow with Day 4 and theres another fabulous prize up for grabs.

Friday, 6 July 2012

Hello everyone,
Apologies for not posting for the past couple of weeks and not commenting on anyones blogs but i havent been able to craft at all as i have been in agony with my back sometimes the pain has been just unbearable.
I am now on very strong painkillers and these are helping soooo much.
Needless to say i have not been able to go down my craftroom and have done no crafting at all.
I am on holiday from 9th July till the 20th so i am hoping that when i return i,ll be able to get some crafting done.
I am due to have Physiotherapy on the 2nd August as the Doctor says i am very stiff and this will help.

Thursday, 21 June 2012

Good Morning i hope you are all well , weathers a bit lowsy but i think we,re getting used to that here in the UK lol!!!!
Today is the start of a new Crafty Ribbons Challenge #22 Carol is hosting this fortnight and she would like to see all your CAS creations CLEAN and SIMPLE

This challenge will
run from 8.30am 21st June until 6pm 4th July ......

Thankyou everyone who joined us for the Butterflies and Bows challenge, all gorgeous Gina had a hard time picking her top3.

And the yummy prize for this challenge

I made this New Home card for my Daughter and her Boyfriend they moved into their very 1st home a couple of weeks ago.

Wednesday, 20 June 2012

I would like to apologise for not visiting anyone and commenting on your lovely creations for the past couple of days but It was Not a good weekend for me .
My Auntie had a stroke on sunday and sadly died at 8pm that evening i was just getting to grips with that news , then monday morning i recieved more sad news about my ex father in law (my 2 sons grandfather) whom i loved very much he had died peacefully in his sleep at 9.30am .I wasn,t not in a very good place for a while but am ok now just have to deal with funerals.
I have next week off work as we ( or i should say Hubby lol)are blockpaving the garden weather permitting (-: I will have some freetime to craft and visit you all then.

Saturday, 16 June 2012

This weeks challenge at CraftyCat #137 has been chosen by our lovely teamie Carol and she has picked a nice easy one for you EMBOSSING.
Our new DT members are with us this week ,
all of the DT have made some wonderful creations for you using images supplied
from our sponsor.

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

OMG what a palaver!!! I was going to post this earlier but silly me started to change my template on my blog after work tjis afternoon and i messed up big time My sidebar gadgets all went to the bottom and it,s took me ages to get them back to the side.
So here i am finally posting my card for today.
I hope you,ve all had a more stressless day.
Heres my DT card for the Crafts and Me Blog

Friday, 8 June 2012

Today sees the start of a new Crafty Catz Challenge #136 as chosen by the lovely Suzie.
Thankyou everyone who joined us last week for our Buttons and Bows challenge, be sure to check and see if you are the winner of the fab prize.
We have had a real tough time picking our new DT's and after alot of head scratching and oh we could have had so many and ended up picking 3 instead of the 2 we had intended. So if you have applied the wait is over. Please pop on over and checkout who the lucky ladies are.

Heres my card

We are very lucky to be sponsored by Digi Darla this week and the DT had
some great images to play with. The winner gets 5 digi images of their
choice.

Crafts and Me Online Store

I design for

CRAFTS and ME DesignTeam

Crafts and Me Digi,s

I am raising money for DOGS TRUST in memory of my Dearest dad..

Copyright/Polite notice

You are welcome to use my creations for inspiration but please do not copy for submission to magazines, competitions, design teams etc...Also please note that all photographs shown on my blog are subject to copyright so again please do not copy